Blogs

MANGA MONDAYS | Endlessly Hating the Endless Eight

By |

By MICHAEL MAUER

That’s right, we’re talking Haruhi this week! I recently convinced a friend to watch the anime, and partially because of that and partially because I’m spending the majority of fall break in airports, I’m hoping to finally get a start on the Haruhi light novels that I’ve had sitting around staring at me disapprovingly from the shelf, saying “Read me you fool! Homework can wait! You don’t need good grades, you need brilliant character development and hilarious cynicism.” Of course the books are right, but I’ve never been one to follow good advice so I haven’t gotten around to reading them yet. Moving on.

Blogs

MOSKOWITZ | We All Lie

By |

By HUNTER MOSKOWITZ

We all lie. We all say “Nice to meet you” or “I’m good” or “I’m sorry” when we do not mean anything of those things. It’s just part of life. You cannot really be part of any conversation by just blurting out what you feel and expect people to react with understanding and compassion. Even if we tell the truth, we lie through omission or exaggeration.

Blogs

KRUGER | Mental Health Treatment, Or Lack Thereof

By |

By REBECCA KRUGER

Today’s college students are part of a mentally ill generation. 33 percent of all college students have suffered a prolonged period of depression. 25 percent suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Due to its “suicide school” reputation following the highly publicized gorge suicides in the 2010-2011 school year, Cornell has been the pioneer in modern student health care. The Wall Street Journal, CNN and many other prestigious news outlets have touted its suicide prevention programs as top of the line.

Blogs

WATCH ME IF YOU CAN | That Marilyn Monroe Subway Picture, 60 Years Later

By |

By MARINA CAITLIN WATTS

The most iconic photo of Marilyn Monroe, and perhaps in cinematic history, is a still of her standing over a subway grate with her dress blown up from the passing train underneath; this image comes from the movie The Seven Year Itch. 60 years later, the picture stands the test of time. Since its conception, it has become famous for its backstory and has been reproduced thousands of times. It is everywhere, from Miss Monroe becoming a statue in Chicago to hanging on a wall in college students’ dorms (myself included).  So in honor of the film turning 60 years old, let’s take a look at the movie this iconic scene is enveloped into.

Blogs

CHANDLER | 13 Reasons Halloween is the Best Holiday

By |

By SARAH CHANDLER

It’s a time to be creative. Case in point: When you gut a pumpkin for decoration you can then toast his innards as a snack. You can put on a costume — and it might be a truer representation of yourself than what you wear every day. How haunting. You can make a Buzzfeed-style list that’s 13 points long and everyone will say, “Ah, yes, I see why she did that.

Blogs

MOHAPATRA | Defining Home

By |

By TANISHA MOHAPATRA

 

When a new friend said he was homesick and looked at me, awaiting a response, I was a little perplexed as to how to react. I could listen to and talk about pretty much anything with anyone, but this had me on a tightrope. I have seen so many people leave, come back, repeat the process and yet nothing has ever changed. At my boarding school, this was routine; there was always something distinct about the feeling in my stomach when it was the last day of term and when it was the first day of a new term. These were probably my two most favorite days — you could say that I have some unspoken love for witnessing packing and unpacking despite not being much of a traveller.

Blogs

GUEST BLOG | My Accent

By |

By EMMA IANNI

Sometimes I say “bitch” and it sounds like “beach,” or vice versa — a confusion of sand, waves and insults. Sometimes I turn a “ship” into a “sheep,” sometimes “sheet” sounds like something else. When I speak in a seminar for the first time, I always wonder whether my classmates will be able to understand what I’m saying and find the meaning across the rolled r’s and long e’s. I used to say “noh,” but my friend Wendy now says that I pronounce “no” like an American. Most people think that my accent is cute and smile as they benevolently mock my strong t’s.

Blogs

MARY’S MUSINGS | Stuck in a Flashback

By |

By MARY BURGETT

I remember one bad night vividly during my fall semester in 2012. I went to dinner with some friends at a dining hall located in the building where I was assaulted. Not the smartest idea, but I was determined to gain some control. It was a mistake to go. We got our food and as I was walking to our table, I saw him.

Blogs

THE E’ER INSCRUTABLE | Imagined Aryans and the Banality of History

By |

By GRIFFIN SMITH-NICHOLS
“I have in this war a burning private grudge… against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler… [who is] ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe,” J.R.R. Tolkien, 1941. I quote Tolkien, fantasist extraordinaire but also, dearer to my heart, a Germanicist for all seasons, as an emblematic, obstructive sherd standing bravely against the brunt of the all-consuming juggernaut of a peculiarly National Socialist cultural fetish. Against Tolkien’s better wishes, the groping and ultimately suicidal assault that the Hitlerite cultural apparatus made on Northern European antiquity succeeded. This was death by association: runic characters and heraldic devices in the shape of hooked lighting bolts, crossed suns, heaven-pointing arrows, wolf traps and elk antlers were pictographic representations of nature as the Germanic peoples from Caesar to Charlemagne’s epochs saw it, and became the damaged goods of a criminally insane regime. Public display of many more politically charged runes is an offense punishable by fines or jail-time in the Bundesrepublik.

Blogs

MEDIA STOMP | Down the Panel Hole: Five Gateway Comics

By |

By MARK KASVIN

Comics and games, once considered quite niche, are, as I have mentioned before, gradually opening up to wider audiences and becoming more accepted as part of what is considered to be “mainstream.” Thus, I feel it’s important to ease those unfamiliar into the media that have a reputation for being difficult to get into. I decided to come up with a quick list of five comics for those of you out there who have even the slightest interest in comics. This list is not in any particular order and consists only of comics that I have read myself. There are dozens, maybe even hundreds of books or series out there that I could recommend, but these five are the ones that I could pick off the top of my head. Here we go:

Bone (1994-2004)

Bone, written and drawn by Jeff Smith, opens with the cartoonish Fone Bone stranded in a wasteland with his cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, having been run out of Boneville.